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Letters PatentNo.v105,409, dated-July 19, 1870.

" IMPROVEMENT IN sHUT'TnR-FASTENING.

The `Schedulereferred. to in these Letters Patent making part of the same `To all` whom tt may concern Be it knownthat I, STEHEN D. AnNonD, of' New Britain, in the county of Hartford and State of Conl necticut, have invented and made a new and useful Improvement in Fastenings for` Shutters, 8m.;- and the following is" declaredto be a correct description i '.lhefastenings that have'heretofore been made for inside lshutters and blinds have generally contained a hook-ended bar, swinging upon a pivot or screw, and

i `taking into a loop that is screwed to the opposite shutter. Ordinary hooks with screw-eyes are also common `forfastenings of' blinds.

In almost all fastenings of this character, the two i ends of the hook are :different in appearance, and are not adapted to beingattached so as to swing with the .i `pivot at either the right or the left-hand end.

My invention is made with reference to'having both endsV of the fastening. of the same external shape and appearance, and allowing the hook to be pivoted upon i either the right orleft-h'and shutter, and, the loop attached to the opposite shutter or blind, thus greatly t i facilitating the use of t-hese fastenings and improving w their appearance. f f i Y In the drawing-` p Figure-1 is an elevation of the said fastening comr Figure-2 isa plan of the `hook and its pivot-plate,

- the latter being in section Figureis an elevation; and y Figure 4, aplan of the loop-plate for the stud of the hook-bar.

` The hook-bar d is 'united to the pivot-plate b by a Y rivet or screw, l .prefer that'a. pin should be' cast uponthe back 'of the` bar a, to form a rivet, as seen #in tig. 2, and, by having a projecting boss in the middle of the plate yb forthe pivot c, the hook-bar a will be keptout-fro'm the surface ofthe shutter.

'.llheA hook-bar a hasthe stud d upon the back of its i y made of any desired ornamental shape or configuration, and both ends alike. 1

`The loopvfor the hook-stud d is made of a plate, f,` with a notched socket, g, for receiving the head and vbody of the stud d, and thereby making a `firm connection when the stud d is hooked thereinto.

The pivot-plate b and loop-plate f areI to be attac-hed to the respective shutters by'screws, or otherwise, and the pivot-plate b may be placed on either the right or left shutter or blind. Y I v The swinging bar a may have a projeetlonupon the back around the pivot c, and the pivot-plate b in that case may be at. v Y rThe connecting button and socket being between the swinging end of thebaraand the plate f, the parts are covered by the end *of said bar, `and the plate f only requires to be screwed to the shutter instead of a mortise being cut into the wood, and, at the same time, the bar a is a suiicient distance from the surfaceof the 'shutter' to allow itrt'o be moved with facility.l Y

AI clairn as my invention- The socket g and slt-ud d, between the bar a and plate f, for connecting said bar aand plate f, in com- Y bination with the plate b upon which the bar a swings, the parts being constructed sof that the attaching vplate b and f will be in line with each other, andthe? bar a stand out from the shutter, as and for the pura" p poses specified.

Signed by me this 2d day of April, A. D. 1870;

S. D. ARNOLD.

` Witnesses: y

CHARLES PECK, WILLIS G. LAMB. 

